Select, resize, snap—handier than ever
Every designer performs hundreds of microtasks while working on a Readymag project. To make your experience smoother, we’ve revamped several essential features in our editor.
![readymag blog_Select, resize, snap](/content/images/size/w2000/2022/09/Select-2C-20resize-2C-20snap-20fb.jpg)
Select
Widgets within a group used to be selected by double-clicking. We kept that mechanic, but have introduced another one that’s even more handy: hold Cmd / Ctrl and hover over a widget to see its frame — to make sure you’ve selected the intended widget before clicking.
![readymag_blog Selecting a widget](https://blog.readymag.com/content/images/2022/09/1-FzUhHJTpQh-BGAxrgUMNgg-1.gif)
Hold Shift + Cmd / Ctrl to select several widgets, whether they’re grouped or not.
![readymag blog_Selecting several widgets at once](https://blog.readymag.com/content/images/2022/09/1-HNH6ukeo4dPuwTmt8zC8Dg.gif)
The widget selection frame now has eight resizing dots, allowing you to adjust dimensions more easily. The frame is hidden when you move a widget with your arrow keys, or resize with Cmd / Ctrl + arrows. For widgets smaller than 15 x 15px, a single resizing dot appears when hovering over the widget.
Bundle-drag
Adding a widget in the middle of a layout requires you to adjust all the following content vertically — a tedious job if not for our bundle-drag feature.
![readymag blog_This is how bundle-drag works](https://blog.readymag.com/content/images/2022/09/1-neJEvOYEMkotyM_6mjxAcg.gif)
Bundle-drag was previously only available for single widgets, but now works with groups.
![readymag blog_Bundle-dragging a group of widgets](https://blog.readymag.com/content/images/2022/09/1-aObRZv7ltGLun4p-jydiuA.gif)
The bundle-drag controls were made smaller, and hidden for widgets less than 15 x 15px.
Snap
Snap helps you place a widget in the right position, and can be activated on the Grids & Guides tab. With this update, snap is more straightforward — a widget only snaps to the nearest object, not to something on the other side of your layout.
![readymag blog_Snapping a widget to another widget](https://blog.readymag.com/content/images/2022/09/1-j17O1A1Ef8ciMWy8K9tosg.gif)
Guides and grids
When you need a column layout, you turn to Guides. From now on, column width may be specified in pixels independent of the layout width.
![readymag blog_Specifying column width](https://blog.readymag.com/content/images/2022/09/1-RSkhdA0JlXTcgqSIHLfETg.png)
Grids (much like the one you had in your math copybook) are another tool for aligning graphics in your project. When holding Shift to resize a widget, the widget will now snap to the grid (when activated).
Fix position
Now when you release the fixed position of a widget on your page, it stays right where it was — it used to relocate, which was quite annoying.